• Will Research In Space Make Science Fiction Come True?

    Bio-IT World | Orbital Transports is positioning itself as the purveyor of the services and supplies needed in an emerging space-based economy. The immediate goal is an online marketplace for everything one might need to execute a small satellite mission, including life science companies looking to do disease modeling and conduct pharmaceutical and regenerative medicine research.

    Feb 3, 2020
  • NIH’s Moonshot Project To Globally Register Medicinal Ingredients

    Bio-IT World | What’s in a name? When it comes to ingredients found in medicine, quite a lot of important detail. That’s why NIH’s NCATS (National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences) has been working to marshal a definitive resource for medicinal ingredients.

    Jan 31, 2020
  • The Jackson Laboratory, Benchling, Genomenon, And More: News From January 2020

    Bio-IT World January featured exciting new, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community from innovating companies, organizations, and universities, including the Jackson Laboratory, Benchling, Genomenon, and more.

    Jan 30, 2020
  • Google Cloud To Host Accenture’s INTIENT Life Sciences Platform

    Bio-IT World Accenture and Google Cloud today announced that Google Cloud will be the cloud technology provider for Accenture’s INTIENT life sciences industry platform.

    Jan 28, 2020
  • A Computer Scientist Reports On Life In Pharma R&D

    Bio-IT World | “I think that pharma R&D is a fascinating place for a computer scientist to work!” So says Felipe Albrecht, Bioinformatics and Computer Scientist, Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED), at Roche Diagnostics GmbH. Albrecht is a data scientist at heart, believing that data drives all science. And his degrees are all in computer science. But when it came to applying that passion, he turned to molecular biology.

    Jan 27, 2020
  • Leveraging the Power of Data and Collaboration to Change Healthcare

    Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | Recently David Levine had the opportunity to participate in a Congressional Briefing with Phillip K. Chang, Chief Medical Officer at the University of Kentucky Healthcare; Patricia Garcia Sullivan, Chief Quality Officer at Penn Medicine; and Congressman Brett Guthrie (KY-02). The briefing revealed how data, quantitative analytics, best practices, and empirical metrics are affecting real change across an ever-evolving healthcare landscape.

    Jan 24, 2020